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Because today is Mel Brooks day.
Anne Bancroft on meeting Mel Brooks
It is indeed. This is beautiful.
TONIGHT at 9pm!
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Premiering nationwide this Monday on PBS (check local listings), ‘Mel Brooks: Make a Noise’ features new interviews with Brooks’ friends and colleagues, including Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman, Joan Rivers, Tracey Ullman, and of course his close friend, Carl Reiner.
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Let’s test your Mel Brooks knowledge! What was the name of the film that Mel won his first Oscar for in 1964?
Find out here, but no cheating!‘Mel Brooks: Make a Noise’ premieres next Monday!
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Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner have been making each other laugh for over 60 years! So, it’s no surprise that you’ll be seeing a lot of Carl in ‘Make a Noise.’
Here’s to hoping that we all have a friend like Carl at 86!
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“I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we we’re walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’- and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before.” - Amy Greene, wife of Marilyn’s personal photographer Milton Greene
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Did you know, Willie Nelson has recorded over 250 albums, and written over 2,500 songs? 80 is the new 40! Happy Birthday, Willie!
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Considered one of the greatest jazz composers of all time, Duke Ellington had an enormous impact on the popular music of the late 20th century.
Happy Birthday, Duke!
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While fighting in WWII, Mel Brooks sang to some German soldiers (using a bullhorn of course)…and they actually liked it!
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Do you remember the name of the famous skit these two performed? In this outtake, Carl Reiner remembers what it was like to work with Brooks.
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‘Does anybody care how ‘The Critic’ came about?!’ Mel Brooks explains the Academy Award winning short film.
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